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Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until June 2024
Location: Awabakal Country
Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 1
Remuneration: $81,581 - $108,532 per annum + superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ458440
Applications Close: 28th January 2024
About the Role
Assessment Officers assist health workers by helping to identify child protection risks and plan initial actions to take in response. Assessment Officers also appraise if a report to the Child Protection Helpline is warranted, help to plan extra services and interventions, exchange information with health workers and communicate with other agencies. The Aboriginal Assessment Officer is also a point of contact for enquiries and reports about Aboriginal families and to support the CWU in providing a culturally appropriate advice.
Where you'll be working
The Child Wellbeing Unit (CWU) is a telephone consultation service for health workers which specialises in child protection and wellbeing concerns. The CWU support and enhance how Health Workers actively respond to child safety, welfare or wellbeing concerns.
The Northern Health CWU takes calls from four different Local Health Districts between 8.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday.
Our friendly unit is staffed by 7 full time Assessment Officers and a full time Administration Officer and is located at Wallsend.
You are an empathetic individual who is confident in assessing child protection risks and providing expert advice. You enjoy working as a part of a team and collaborating with other teams and services and are highly capable of managing competing priorities in a sometimes-demanding environment.
Benefits
- Four weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part-time employees)
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees)
- Superannuation contributions 11%
- Salary packaging - Up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing.
- Fitness Passport
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
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For role related queries or questions contact Angelika Mandel on ***************@health.nsw.gov.au
Additional Information
- An eligibility list will be created for future temporary full or part time vacancies.
- This position is full time; however, part time arrangements will be considered.
- To be eligible for employment in this position you must be an Australian Citizen, or permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport, or hold an appropriate visa that allows you to live and work in Australia. Employment of a temporary visa holder will only be offered in line with the conditions and expiry date of your visa.
- We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
Information for Applicants:
Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description (link below). For assistance addressing selection criteria visit: https://bit.ly/3vL5fq2
Stepping Up Website is a resource designed to help indigenous job applicants apply for positions in NSW Health. For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/HNEHealthSteppingUp.
This is a Category A position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive PD2023_022: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (AIR Immunisation History Statement) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
Acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement (IHS), or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate, or AIR COVID-19 and Influenza IHS. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.?
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